research institute the here the foundation's minda walk was supposed to commence the following day him much well as we speak this is the only institute that is indeed. the true this is the oil and gas research institute in nigeria yes that's a good resource joe you can come up with your research if you want to come here you really see a lot. inside you do your research this is and this will live by the president not an artist and not a minister president of the for the republican idea this through. that is what we have. port harcourt three million inhabitants the principal city of the delta and growing exponentially expansion it's like the nigerians who work on the platforms often

live here whenever. we're in the car of patrick who we met on the f.p.s. . he's head of the control room a major post two weeks at sea two weeks ashore he suggested that we stop to visit his home just now patrick is off to fetch his children from school. normally. gone out for a drive but. it's difficult for you to trust somebody here because of how to love those stories whereby. you pull your employer. or drive your house needs a. good no it's. fair a struct in one of the schools everyone tries to parks close a possible maximum security cars even drive into the playground patrick actually goes into each classroom to fetch his three children one by one initially when he

started it was that it was the it was the espace that he could not by the way take care but after these no more the spotted about fire and how. they shone in an exclusive. as an all day that's so you'll have to. prove kind and the how you try to provide security for itself. just as a very careful one to see how you can take care of. yourself i know if i'm in there but overall it's. when it's known that sister. don't go out when he does needs. it's a look around. the bar and you are no that's. just show. some of the we arrive at the house a super secure is

a little fortress but outside and inside. is a sieve for so from you know you're going see look through the sue is that decide if anything is going on you are yet to see. or does i was here you. were here with the old lie still so. so. so then there look to god minds there's a fair wish would oprah for but the good of anything just to be there for security purposes difficult for them to get to you isn't it so you call the bullies on. patrick and his wife so you get used to it all but the state of alert becomes second nature when patrick quits the tension of his high risk he confronts another tension ashore. the eye ito family is very well off they leave the country join the

vacations to take a rest i've heard people say that he. was not the cheats but was a curse on the journey. because of what is up now. because what is happening so people not see it just because because of the millions on cd kidnapping and. being taken this by after all. it. is just the government isn't to raise themselves. just like their cause. this is what mrs i was talking about militants from men movement for the emancipation of the niger delta. groups of highly armed guerrillas who attack on both sides blow up pipelines and kidnap oil workers. they hide and train in the mangroves chiefs or in the big cities or abroad. acquiring their revenues from

almost sales oil smuggling and ransom demand can foreign companies they confront the forces of law and order directly in exchanges which ended deaths on both sides . after endless bargaining during our various trips we were able to make contact with the mend militants. they agreed to talk at a secret location where we were taken eyes blindfolded during the journey. in a room behind closed windows and doors we met the man who terrorize the oil companies workers and who by their attacks managed to reduce production. the man who's going to talk to us calls himself commander rambo. because when the manger was. slated for the. fifty three of.

this movement for the. suppression of those in the region. this. is. different. they were. my. because this is the give money to look at cheerful one government official only suppresses the rights of the people so. we have to do this to force their hand to. deal with the government

because if we destroy production it's a phrase the government of. congress to swallow it is sit or fund or destroy. are you. sure. good form for example. if the close of. the man the militants are able to travel far in their fast and powerful boats. aboard the f.b.i. so they're waiting for them but with our name when they might come the price of a ransom for an expatriate fifty thousand dollars thirty thousand euros the hostages are always returned in good condition. from his office patrick is in contact with the offices on shore several times a day though his reports are like a poem with figures. to mismatch from. twelve point three was due to export. our production gas was

that point one five million not in two q. we injected five. full day. see to the top of the gas exports was. a good new shot for. jackson was done so. there is. plans forgot to apply online tonight is a sin. of most of the major conflict positions on the earth just soaks. maginot or those are more this is so. it's possible but i think that would be ceased. to be we're looking at

a baby if it's it does happen. i would see maybe it would be in next fifteen or twenty years because. the facts is we have. technology from the outside we don't have the local technology. contrary to what patrick thinks they do have the technology but not the same means . a little trip continues along the delta for a sequence that nobody has ever yet managed to fill. he said i'm from a village whose name the inhabitants also is not to mention because their revenues don't exactly derives from the declared economy. the journey through the mangroves in the countries arms of the delta is scary. because huge areas where oil spread. thick layer of black oil that covers the entire surface of the water

below which all life is totally disappeared. kilometer after kilometer of mangrove are affected and yet no scientific mission has ever yet come into these territories and. the six black smoke is rising over the mangroves. we've arrived at last. as we approach the men fully. love all those in our boat call to them reassuring up.

a refinery. an illegal refinery under the open sky. men distill crude oil. amidst the steel. on the risks of explosion. men who've welded together a few cans to make stills. and who feed the fire by tossing bowls of oil onto it. it's an apocalyptic scene on the dying trees. the man lives here e.t.f. if sleepy and. todd up from the inside.

if he see if. he would. give his cue. there's a different refining process we all call from the steve. biko

one of. the finest. ok there's a. decent we went. fishing block and we put it inside all we said. greenspun they. were gay community. they will do it's like that's good to know if you want to. define a speech. on. monday with you go. by what i do with.

what can you say it's dirty it's dangerous. in a corner of a dying micro fishermen turn borders of crude oil just trying to get by. a nightmare no. more of a parallel economy which learn the basics of refining from oil company technicians so where does the crude come from and where does the refined products go. and. how close. did you know what. we had known true that not anything everybody's trouble nice old still would go find us a. stills

are now pouring out boiling refined oil residue something under still task will be thrown into a hole in the ground to fuel another operation. opposite the refinery. gunnels with oil await their turn. the boat is used. as a crude. sort of using convened a crude. like a truck like short like a truck like a truck like a truck because of these crude got in from somewhere far away from here so we can't . get to the point and come back it will be strenuous. many times so they use these to convey a good quantity of the product just like that show with the crude oil.

so many so many so many so these boys sometimes they go there instead of this crude oil to terminate or contaminate the water they put it into the. this is called put into the canoe and process it here refine it here. and after. the refined. ok. black market in local markets local market there are people who comes here to buy from other places people that are not even. i to do it has a netbook these days business has a network so there are people come from far and wide to get this productive for themselves and of course there's been a day of been using to supplement the d.v.d. . production calls is not sufficient nigeria is about one hundred fifty million

population and about a friend i was out walking as you are aware and these people guys are doing these two. for these things that are way to sustain yes yes. here and there across the forest smoke rises to indicate a refinery apparently there are dozens. we do a little further into the mangroves. which is the crude oil that these men refine come from how do they get it. on the way christmas trees down the glycol but some economy. scorched earth once served as a refinery patches of oil everywhere. and

then a scorching us have taken a risk the village chiefs people in high places get dividends from illegal refineries but the feeling of a dead end the point of no return is drowning them in indignation. after a moment we stop in the middle of an expanse of blacks do you. nothing on the surface but the end of a plastic pipe half in managing the well is here to stay here others work. on the ground here b.s. there is a trance niger. pipe connecting the flow stations to bony tom and there's a ton going on him but no where he is cloaked export coup crude oil from day and the pipes are being laid on the ground from here to bony yes which is the technique people from here use for collecting the crude oil when they see that when to see the day they leak the good to disport because it leaks from the ground up so

the dig on to get to the points on the ground when they get dead he put tourists on the sufi's of the i'm pretty good. as well you can still get. used to used oil too much. or too much so much. so the leak never stopped. just the close it wonderfully to close it in didn't know when to call the open need to. use it in the daytime to close it because they'll be mislead they don't want people to see that. you can have you do this you. know what. they used to machine. to the host. balls. around the makeshift drilling

a mangrove is dead even away by the oil it's this type of leak more or less assisted that is the source of the black swamps we pass through. and we learn that retired engineers and technicians from the companies do the job themselves. because the operation requires skill. for two thousand dollars they come with their equipment d.p.'s the pipeline and they put in a tap. the commissioner of this act of piracy then becomes owner of his own oil well. and sells the raw material to the buyers in the canoes to refine it further on. so all along the road you find tiny independent service stations consisting of three or four cans to supply the motorist. a flourishing black market based on chaos and man's inventiveness. i don't see it's the final stage in the process. a giant boy will serve as a morning and supply point for supertankers from all over the world. two hundred

kilometers off the coast the d.i.y. man and backyard refiners won't be piercing the pipelines pilots are responsible for that operation by hand and by hook. what spy to see going tugs the maneuver seems almost traditional. if. it would be. just about a no go to do good so that i would push to move up with out to the dug up there would be about a false. standoff way dubiously about i. was asking us to do what i was going to. do good without.

you know any better i going through that. every day. with one we don't. want to go. the study going to be one you don't want close it's like got some by nine hundred. you'll. probably have. to say. it's a log you know looking. god given the big three. progressing gradually. filling the tank it will take three days and it will be immediately replaced by another. you can almost hear the oil slipping through the pipes. are going to. put a. lot of. guys i was like. oh shit i see festool. but i spent it out then i will yeah. you know.

twenty four hours a day off the coast petrol is pumped treated then deliver the world needs energy and we haven't found anything better. in the future they envisage drilling to depths of more than five thousand or six thousand meters further and further from land and watching ice at night the s.p.s. i was like a magnificent motionless fog display and i have one last question to ask. we mean. we maintain the principle that it was equal and some of the common rules of. where you come from. where the.

was sure that's as much as possible no problems come. so far so far we haven't had any and it's applies to most of all of the sites that have to. person workers some walkers. find each of nigeria. nigeria was. their gender it was their company's network. but it was simply. its. sides and to say it's. probably not probable. but. life's life is not.

well. science technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia we've got the future covered. the arab league is set to decide whether to give the go ahead to another month of the year of monitoring mission in syria while the opposition wants the u.n. security council to get involved. pushed to the edge of the internet robertson a furor over plans to expand a web censorship striking back with internet while blackouts and massive hacking attacks. israel and the us talk tactics over a possible conflict in the gulf as they gather forces at iran's borders while the e.u. prepares its oil embargo over to iran's alleged nuclear ambitions. and remain a public anger spills over hundreds rested and dozens injured as police quell

violence amid a massive ongoing anti-government protest. forty nine t. coming to you live from moscow on a sunny afternoon we'll take a look at the top stories that shape the week as well as the latest news on the arab league's fact finding mission in syria is waiting for the green light to continue its monitoring activities for another month the decision is due to come later on sunday as the observers report comes under scrutiny at a gathering in cairo that's amid harsh criticism from opposition groups which say the observer mission has failed to curb bloodshed the latest flare up at least fourteen people have reportedly been killed in a roadside bomb attack on a van carrying prisoners in the northwest of the country joined the observers as the visit of a town near the syrian capital damascus.